Elephants Quotes · Page 8

He frowned as he struggled to remember. It was like watching an elephant crochet.

— Val McDermid

Elephants have a hard time adapting. Cockroaches outlive everything.

— Peter Drucker

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

— Desmond Tutu

I was called 'Dumbo,' like the elephant, as a child because I couldn't understand things at school.

— Anthony Hopkins

I really wanted to work with David Lynch. I was a big fan of The Elephant Man and Eraserhead.

— Sting

Writers, like elephants, have long, vicious memories. There are things I wish I could forget.

— William S. Burroughs

Save the elephants, and then you save the forest - and then you save yourself.

— Mark Shand

“People steal elephants. It happens all the time.”

— Jonathan Franzen

Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of…

— Mariella Frostrup

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

— Robert Novak

Dear God. Not only am I unemployed and homeless, but I also have a pregnant woman, bereaved dog, elephant, and eleven horses…

— Sara Gruen

Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no…

— Shashi Tharoor

You see, in a world where elephants are pursued by flying men, people are just naturally going to want to get high.

— Judith Rascoe

And the elephant sings deep in the forest-maze About a star of deathless and painless peace But no astronomer can find where…

— Ted Hughes

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

— Michael Shannon

The circus a place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

— Ambrose Bierce

The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to…

— Gus Van Sant

“Gentlemen," returned Mr. Micawber, "do with me as you will! I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am…

— Charles Dickens

I think that the reason that people are so up in arms about movies that have historical inaccuracies is because now that…

— Nicholas Meyer

Unlike the primate hand, the elephant's grasping organ is also its nose. Elephants use their trunks not only to reach food but…

— Frans de Waal

I returned to New Orleans and my problems with pari-mutuel windows and a dark-haired, milk-skinned wife from Martinique who went home with…

— Anonymous

She was a beautiful woman." Gavner sighed, tracing the outline of one of the elephants. "She just had very bad taste in…

— Darren Shan

...women are elephants and watch the way you say that in front of them because they'll think you're calling them fat and…

— Melina Marchetta

They [gorillas] are brave and loyal. They help each other. They rival elephants as parents and whales for gentleness. They play and…

— Pat Derby

Once we ask why it should be that all human beings - including infants, the intellectually disabled, criminal psychopaths, Hitler, Stalin, and…

— Peter Singer

A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther…

— Rudyard Kipling

We are having to pull money into site-level protection for elephants just to keep them alive. But there isn't enough money to…

— Allen Crawford

A capacity for inferiority in the growing adult is threatened by the temptation by squander that capacity ruthlessly, to revel in hallowness.…

— Gregory Maguire

“Solomon breathed a sigh of relief ever so slightly, thankful that the cricket had not been eaten. Not that he was concerned…

— Michael Delaware

Americans should never underestimate the constant pressure on Canada which the mere presence of the United States has produced. We're different people…

— Pierre Trudeau

“I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for…

— Nancy Farmer

Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced…

— Gary Yourofsky

If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.

— Pierre Corneille

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

— John von Neumann

The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!

— Andre Norton

Don't fight the rabbits. If you fight the rabbits, the elephants are going to kill you.

— Bobby Knight

If you want to shoot rare, fast-moving elephants, you should always carry a loaded gun.

— Warren Buffett

“It is the tame elephants who enjoy capturing the wild ones.”

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm like an elephant, ok? If I walk into a room, it's like, OK, he's in there.

— Aziz Ansari

When the elephant decides to walk through the village, all the dogs come out and bark.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi